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Hillary is threatening OPEC with… anti-trust laws.
Not bombs, tanks, missiles, or the most fearsome Army ever to kick up the dust of conquered nations, but word-spattered pieces of highly ignorable paper.
Utterly pointless
If she REALLY wants to crush these bastards without the fun of military destruction, it’s pretty simple. Roll back our hysterically oversensitive dirt & vermin protection laws, and start letting oil companies drill & refine the ocean of oil reserves whose very existence makes hippies march around with giant, burning, Exxon effigy-puppets. We’d have OPEC curled up in a corner crying like a candy-stolen baby in 2 years, tops.
But that would cost some of the profits that Hillary wants to tax the crap out of, so that’s off the table.
Anyway, I can’t help noticing that her specific criticism of OPEC is that they “get together once every couple of months in some conference room in some plush place in the world” and that “that’s not a market, that’s a monopoly”.
Actually a “monopoly” is “exclusive control by one group of the means of producing or selling a commodity or service”.
Her description is actually one of several other things:
- Bill’s sex life
- Congress
- John McCain and conservatism.
- Superdelegates
- The people whose job it is to cancel every show Nathan Fillion appears on (I’m STILL pissed about Drive).
- Terrorist leaders who don’t know their plush place is being laser designated.
- Britney’s intervention planners.
- Microsoft’s “Oops! Missed THAT security hole!” team.
- Hollywood studios who honestly believe that their anti-war movie will turn a profit.
- People who sell bad acid and Battlestar Galactica script-writers, although these meetings are, apparently, a weekly thing this season.
- Al Gore and record-breaking cold temperatures.
So what else “isn’t a market”?
FrankJ:
I don’t even know what I just read. My mind went blank after I read that you were pissed that they cancelled the show Drive. Wasn’t it cancelled on the basis that i.q. tests proved that even the 30 second commercials killed brain cells? I feel like my wife just told me that she cheated on me with a carnie midget. I’m so confused. Maybe I’ll feel better if I admit that I watched a couple episodes of America’s Most Smartest Model. No, didn’t help. Okay, I’ve gotta go
Actually a group of businesses controlling a product would be considered an oligarchy. A group of hippies burning effigy signs of Exxon would be an insane asylum without the containment of a building.
This is a tough one, Harvey.
* State-assigned broadband cable monopolies.
* The United Nations
I can’t think of anything funny (but what else is new?)
*Code Pink and Free Speech.
*Cindy Sheehan and Moral Authority to say the dumbest stuff that comes to her psychotic mind.
*Gays and the Rainbow(Why did they have to ruin it for everyone)
*Nashville, and all the hot country chicks and Terrible music.
Me playing center naked at the Gay Games football final with Peyton Manning at quarterback. But I’d have to think a while if I got a shot at that Taryn Manning from the cast. And BigRichardSmall, give a listen to Rosanne Cash and her “Kings Record Shop” CD.
A true monopoly is established under the authority of government. It isn’t mono as in one, it is mon as in monarch. The king grants you the corner on the market, and bingo, you have a monopoly. A monopoly has no competition not because of an overwhelming position in a market, but because they are protected from competition. Government subsidized companies such as the Post Orifice are de facto monopolies, in that they would not have survived after Fred got FedEx going full bore (likewise UPS, DHL, etc).
Hilldebeast would screw us by granting us a tax holiday, then recouping the lost tax revenue by confiscating it from oil companies. They would in turn, just raise their prices. If they don’t, there will be those who invest in oil through 401k and IRA plans, screaming about a decline in earnings, and she will be inclined to try to fix that also. It just becomes one big circle jerk, and we are in the middle expected to lap up what comes our way.
I’m going to go cling to my guns now.
Come on, now, Drive sucked soooooo bad, even if Fillion himself is a delectable and tasty treat.
Well, getting to the original point, Hillary thinks that dealing with OPEC the way the Europeans dealt with an American company merging with another American company by claiming it violated anti-trust laws will be effective. This is just amusing. Europe can make their own airplanes, even if they suck.
Oil is not about supply and demand right now, it’s about limits and speculation driving up cost. We need to do one of two things.
1) SAY we are going to open more oil fields offshore and in Alaska, which is what the Republican plan does and the Democrat plan do not do. If you even SUGGEST there will be more supply, there will be less speculation, which is responsible for the bulk of this increase lately.
2) Alternatively, you can identify the top ten oil speculators at the moment, round them up, and then put a bullet through their heads on national television. End the broadcast with “Gee, I wonder who the top ten oil speculators will be NEXT week?” Oil will drop $40 a barrel within days, if not more. Now, is this fair? Well, makiing money off the misery of your entire country isn’t fair either, buddy – now take your bullet like the vermin you are.
Fillion is currently on Desperate Housewives, those guys can have ONE last job
I don’t know what everyone’s problem is. Drive was an exciting show that, given time to build properly, had the potential to be absolutely brilliant.
I’ve gotta side with Harvey here.